SAN FRANCISCO – An Oakland environmental group announced Wednesday that Chrysler LLC and three auto-parts makers have agreed to end their use of lead wheel weights in California. The settlement comes ...

They are out there and working in six states, with several more states looking at banning lead weights. California, Illinois, Maine, New York, Vermont and Washington already have lead wheel weight ...

The Biden administration decided to forgo the rulemaking process on the neurotoxic heavy metal used on automobile weights. EPA announced it won’t regulate lead weights in automobile wheels, 15 years ...

No one told Mike Brown to stop using lead wheel weights. He did because it made sense. Brown, owner of Iowa City Tire and Dodge Street Tire, phased out the use of lead weights earlier this year, ...

A few years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency targeted the passenger and light truck tire wheel weight industry in an effort to eliminate lead. Since these assemblies are commonly balanced at ...

The federal government should ban the use of lead weights, those fingertip-size chunks of metal that balance the tires of cars and trucks, says a petition filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not regulate the manufacture, processing or distribution of lead for wheel-balancing weights under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

Tire companies, big box stores, and the government are putting the brakes on the use of lead wheel weights. Through EPA's National Lead-Free Wheel Weight Initiative, partners have agreed to phase-in ...

TRENTON, N.J. (Feb. 27, 2015) — The New Jersey legislature is considering a new law that would make it the eighth state in the U.S. to ban lead and mercury wheel balance weights. New Jersey Assembly ...

True rotation of a several-hundred-pound mass and high speeds requires balancing, not just of the tire, but the entire rotating mass, including the hub, brake drum, wheel and tire. UPDATED -- Beware ...